Hopefully going to try and get to Ladybower on Monday for a day. Never ridden the area before but will be following a route from the dark peaks book basically. Doesnt talk of rain so far as I can see, but if it does change are there any routes that ride better than others in bad conditions or does the ground dry up pretty fast? excuse the ignorance, never been before

Cheers

Roych, Jacob’s Ladder etc seems to do really well in wet conditions – Vertebrate Graphics put this one their site a while back https://www.v-publishing.co.uk/blog/v-publishing-blog/2014-01-20—free-download-kinder-all-weather-circuit.html

There’s some solid stuff around Ladybower, but some of it does chop up bad.

Hope that helps?

Avoid cut gate in the wet as it chops up really
Badly. It’s a great ride in the dry though and it’s been pretty dry here lately, so should be ok unless we get a fair bit of weekend rain

Rushup Edge would be especially boggy after rain. Bits of typical Ladybower loops can be a bit wet after rain but not too bad.

The bridleway from cutthroat bridge up to Winstone Lee Tor gets v boggy – give it a miss if it’s really wet.
Keeper of the Peak twitter describes current conditions.

Yep cut gate in the wet is not great. I’m going to have to do the Kinder route one day too.

Unless it absolutely pisses it down, the conditions won’t change much. The main bridleways of the Dark Peak are generally very rocky and don’t get too affected even after months of rain. Cut Gate and Winstone Lee Tor as above are the exceptions, but a bit of June drizzle won’t make a difference.

Some of the more ‘off piste’ trails are a bit muddier and vulnerable though.